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Today's the day we decided we would make it rich. Fort Worth to Crater of Diamonds State Park. Story goes about this park is it is a volcanic crater where public can fossick for diamonds and what you find, you get to keep. Aah well, may as well give it a go and hey, what is the worst that could happen, we find nothing but have a good time finding nothing! GPS tells us we will be there in four hours, Yep, ...

We arrived at Diamond Crater State Park at 940a ready to hunt for diamonds. It's a hot day with a slight breeze which makes sitting in the dirt a hot job. After about and hour we decided to use the water screen sifting method. Two reasons one ...

... of mapping routes, we still like to be able to preview routes and look up an alternate plan if construction delays loom!). There was a geocache in a tree 200 feet from the door, so no sense in leaving that unfound. Later, we stopped at the Johnny Cash Rest Area, which led to many hilarious comments about why there wasn’t a Johnny Cash Cache available. Clearly Tennessee cachers have missed an opportunity ...

As it happened, we did not attend the last day of the conference due to unforeseen circumstances. We spent a fairly quiet day; we did tour Little Rock a bit more. We found the Little Rock Central High School site (still a working high school). The brave young men and women who attended that school impressed me, and when I saw the video, I was also impressed at the thought of the parents who had to send their children to this school every day...you ...

... zillions of years ago). We didn’t find any, just some cool rocks, but they average a couple of small diamonds per day found by park visitors. There was a nice trail to the Little Missouri River with an overlook where you could see a few teepees across the water. By far the best place we’ve stayed so far!

I'd say this is what we were hoping for when we planned this trip, and it feels good. ...